Improved mop-head



UNITED STATES PATENTc EEICE.

E. R. REED AND N. F. REED, OF HYDE PARK, VERMONT.

IMPROVED MOP-HEAD.

Specification tbrniing part of Letters Patent No. 35,95 l., dated July 22,18f2.

To all whom may concern:

Be it known that we, E. R. REED and N. F.

vREED, of Hyde Park, in the county of Lamoville and State of Vermont, have invented a certain new and useful Mop-Head, of which the following is a full description, the accom panying drawings making a part of this specitication.

Figure 1 vis a side elevation of our mophead, the black lin'cs showing the hinged retaining bar closed to retain the mop, and the red lines showing the same as it appears when opened for the purpose of receiving the mop. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on theline S S in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a partial plan from below showing the spring-catch, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line T T in Fig. 1.

Our moplhead may be formed of two castings, a strip of steel, and two rivets with very little labor in fitting, putting together, or ad justing.

To enable others skilled in the alt to make and use our invention, we will proceed to describe its construction and operation by the aid of the drawings. y

A is a casting witlraJ socket to receive the handle a. The face or upper edge of this casting is hollowed, as shown inthe section Fig. 2.

B is a retaining bar of metal formed with teeth or projections b b on its edge. One end -of this bar is fitted within a fork in A, and

held there by a pin or rivet, C, so as to form aknucklejoint, the bar B being capable of assuming the position shown in red lines in Fig. 1. At the other end of B is a notched projection, B, standing at or nearly at right angles to B, the notches thereon being so formed in a series on one side, as represented, as to serve as a variable and instantaneous detent, in the manner which will appear. The projection B stands in the casting A when down, as is shown in Fig. 3.

E is a spring xed on A and bent around at the part E', so as to inclose the part B. A

portion, e, ofthis spring is tted to enter the notches or teeth D and act as a retainingpawl, permitting the lever B B to be pressed down so far as the mop interposed will allow with little resistance, but preventing its return until the spring E is so forced away by a l pressure applied to E' as to release e from D.

The manner of operation is as follows:v The spring E being forced out of contact with B', the retaining-lever is raised into the position shown in red lines, and the mop M, Fig. 2, is placed across A in the position desired. The retaining-lever is then pressed down thereon, the spring E retaining it irmly by its automatic action at the lowest position to which it is forced until it is desired to remove it. The teeth b I), acting in conjunction with the hollow face of A, so bend and corrugate the material of the mop that they hold it very securely with a slight pressure against the strains which tend while in use to remove it from the head. It the bar B is not pressed home with sufficient force at first, or if the mop becomes softer or diminishes in quantity by use, the action of lnopping by thrusting upon the bar B will tend to force it linto tighter contact with A,and such movement will be retained by the spring E.

Our improved mop-head is very simple, is not liable to get ont of order by rust or swelling, like those in which screws are used, holds the mop very securely, maybe cheaply constructed, and presents more than usual facility for removing or inserting the mop.

Having now fully described our invention, what we claim as new in mop-heads, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The employment of the lever-B b, hinge C, and spring-catch E, arranged to operate to gether, substantially as herein described.

E. R. REED.

N. F. REED.

Witnesses: DAVID K. ANDEEws, DANIEL BALDWIN. 

